A child suffered a serious injury or trauma while being educated and cared for by the service that required urgent medical attention or where the child attended, or should have attended, hospital.

Section 174(2) of the National Law and Regulation 12 of the National Regulations apply.

Notify QECNT within 24 hours of becoming aware of the incident.

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Section 174(2)(a) requires that QECNT is notified of any serious incident occurring at the approved education and care service.

Regulation 12 provides a list of circumstances that are serious incidents under the National Law.

This list includes any incident involving serious injury or trauma to a child while the child is attending an approved service and:

  • the child required urgent medical attention from a registered medical practitioner; or
  • the child attended a hospital; or
  • the child should have attended a hospital.

For example, a broken limb.

For more information, see section 7.3 of ACECQA’s Guide to the National Quality Framework, Operational Requirements.

Next Steps

  1. Login to the National Quality Agenda IT System
  2. Complete I01 Notification of Incident form and provide any required attachments.

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